Álvaro Arias Explained

Álvaro Arias^[1] (Oviedo, Spain, 1969) is a Spanish linguist and Hispanist specialist in the fields of phonology, morphology and dialectology. He has more than thirty scholarly publications.

Born in Oviedo, with family roots in Felechosa (Aller, Asturias), is a linguist^[2] and Hispanist.^[3] He was educated at University of Oviedo, where he received a BA in Spanish philology and a PhD in Spanish linguistics.

He is professor of Spanish philology at the University of Oviedo^[4] and author of publications on phonology and grammar, from a theoretical and dialectal perspective, with special attention to the Spanish, Galician and Asturian languages. He has published over 30 articles and book chapters, and edited or authored several books, in these areas.^{[5] [6]}

He has also published studies of linguistic historiography^[7] and rescued and published literature in Asturian of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.^{[8] [9]}

Damaso Alonso Prize of Philological Research,^[10] he has also received other awards for his academic work.^[11]

External links

• Álvaro Arias homepage.
• Álvaro Arias's publications.

Notes and References

1. Full name in Spanish transcription: Álvaro Arias Cabal; complete name: Álvaro Arias-Cachero Cabal.
2. https://web.archive.org/web/20111226224541/http://linguistlist.org/people/personal/get-personal-page2.cfm?PersonID=173668 The Linguist list: Álvaro Arias.
3. http://hispanismo.cervantes.es/Hispanistas_ficha.asp?DOCN=12433 Portal del Hispanismo: Álvaro Arias.
4. http://filoesp.uniovi.es/personal/pdi Website of the Department of Spanish Philology at the University of Oviedo.
5. Book: Arias. Álvaro. El morfema de ‘neutro de materia’ en asturiano. 1999. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela.
6. Book: Arias. Álvaro. Oposición y pertinencia en Lingüística. 2000. Universidad de Oviedo.
7. Julio Somoza: Primer ensayo de un vocabulario bable (1891~1901). Critical edition of Álvaro Arias, Uviéu: Academia de la Llingua Asturiana, 1996.
8. Juan González Villar: La Judit (1770). Critical edition of Álvaro Arias, Uviéu: Academia de la Llingua Asturiana, 1996.
9. Josefa Jovellanos: Las exequias de Carlos III y La proclamación de Carlos IV (1789~1790). Uviéu: Academia de la Llingua Asturiana, 1999.
10. Damaso Alonso Prize of Philological Research, University of Santiago de Compostela, 1999.
11. Translation Award (shared with Carlos Ealo, co-author of translation), Academy of the Asturian Language, 1997; Linguistics Research Award, Academy of the Asturian Language, 1994; among others.